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Re:Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013) by mike_d on Sunday November 06, 2022 @11:13PM (#33501049)
The US is an absolutely huge win - get the valuable customers and leave the rest for Android. For comparison the 2021 advertising spend in the US was greater than that of the next 10 countries combined.
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Re:Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013) by solardev on Sunday November 06, 2022 @11:33PM (#33501178)
That sounds like a societal failing rather than marketing genius
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Re:Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013) by guhidalg on Sunday November 06, 2022 @11:40PM (#33501239)
Nope, a country so rich that it spends money trying to influence how money is spent. I’ll take advertisement over monopolies any day.
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Re:Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013) by kingboss on Monday November 07, 2022 @04:08AM (#33503255)
You have both don't worry...
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Re:Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013) by seydor on Monday November 07, 2022 @01:44AM (#33502025)
- the US is filthy rich compared to europe at this point in time , but that also means that US is exporting less

- the population of 10 european countries combined is not as big as the US

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Re:Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013) by Someone on Monday November 07, 2022 @02:50AM (#33502532)
> the population of 10 european countries combined is not as big as the US

Populations (skipping Russia with 145 million): Germany 83 million, UK 67 million, France 65 million, Italy 60 million, Spain 47 million, Ukraine 43 million.

That’s 6 countries, 365 million people. The USA has 332 million.

Even taking ‘Europe’ mean ‘the EU’, the ten largest (by population) countries together have about 360 million people (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_European_U...)

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Re:Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013) by vetinari on Monday November 07, 2022 @12:48PM (#33509312)
> - the population of 10 european countries combined is not as big as the US

Exactly opposite. US states generally have larger area, but lower population. Population-wise, California is about the size of Poland and Texas is similar to Romania. No state is comparable to Germany (83M), France (65M) or Italy (60M).

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Re:Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013) by fnord123 on Monday November 07, 2022 @03:17AM (#33502772)
> For comparison the 2021 advertising spend in the US was greater than that of the next 10 countries combined.

That sounds like a quality of life issue for people in America.

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